The Gift Car by Torquemada

 The Gift Car by Torquemada

I have always been used 39 rev. driving 2 40 & 6, and the 7 ac. at  Brooklands will tell you all about my 15; but it was given a second-hand 27 25 rev. for Christmas, and 38 a rash  moment after 24 rev. was prevailed   upon to take out 20 43 and her little   brother 45, without any preliminary 29.   She looked a nice little job of work   (the 27 not 20) as I ran her out of the garage: her I dn. tyres were nearly new,  she was upholstered in the most delicate  of 21 & 6, and those hole arrangements at either side of the dashboard, for retaining one's 33 ac. of maps, cigarettes and apples had real 35 ac. Also her mascot, though actually, I 23x ac.,   the head of Mercury, impressively resembled a Burmese 32 with a 18 rev.   “Look, 36 dn.,” cried little 45, as he  scrambled into the back seat and   proceeded to kick the cushions with 30, ‘there’s 11 of room back here.’ But 20 took no 12, preferring to sit in front with me. Bar the fact that I started in 3 and for a moment it looked as if we were returning, our progress for the  first 25 rev. minutes was excellent; all   those parts whose function it is to 10 proceeded to 10 with 13 rev.   It was only when we had reached  the main road and I started to 33 dn. 5 it and 14 her up a bit, that I discovered, with no wish to look gift cars in the  7 dn., that she had more than one  unworthy 42 rev.: 41, owing to some solution of continuity, she dropped   11 of 35 dn. rev. upon the place   beneath; owing to excess of I ac., she rejoiced in the popular pastime of Knock, Knock; owing, doubtless, to the presence of a 17 in the 23 dn. (as this leaves me); she emitted a horrible squeak; and these two sounds formed a 19 which did not 26 to her credit. Finally (and you will have to be as much of a 8 as I am to understand this), none of the wires were fancied by their own 36 ac., and consequently the 4 backed both ways.   Even so, the drive might have been a  success had not a Foughastly errand-boy charged me from a right-hand side-street. Instinctively, to preserve his valuable bicycle, I charged the populous 34.   The consequent percussion 31 little 45 28 into 44 & 2 (see diagram 16).   He came to earth I know not where. 20 and I took to our heels, while an   incensed citizenry armed with 22 and using language, which ought to have been 9, proceeded to 37 hell out of the 27.